everything I hear and read about UCLA last week is totally surreal and terrifying lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/may/…

First in Semafor: Nicholas Carlson is stepping down as editor-in-chief of Business Insider semafor.com/article/05/07/…

'Over 390 bodies have been discovered at Nasser and Al Shifa hospitals, including of women and children, with many reportedly showing signs of torture and summary executions, and potential instances of people buried alive.' ohchr.org/en/press-relea…

Just in time for the Met Gala, and at long last, here's the memo announcing a tentative contract between Condé Nast and the union representing hundreds of staffers

Per an email to staff, Kim Godwin is leaving ABC News.

NYT executive editor Joe Kahn on Bari Weiss: 'She’s got a single note, and keeps playing it up over and over again.' semafor.com/article/05/05/…

The entire basis for Stefanik smearing a Nobel Peace Prize-winning journalist as an antisemite is that her website published an editorial that criticized the Israeli government

New episode of Press Club: Olivia Nuzzi on WHCD weekend, the scene inside the Trump trial, whether Trump can obey his gag order and stay out of jail, the fate of Kari Lake, and how she plans on covering the 2024 race
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I wrote about how last night, an over-the-air radio broadcast from a tiny FM signal was the sole news source for the most important national news story of the moment. And how that's.... interesting businessinsider.com/columbia-unive…

>> @AndersonCooper: 'We're looking at a shot from Spectrum News NY1 of officers – it looks like gaining entrance to a building on some sort of crane... looking into a window...'

Fox News rejects Hunter Biden’s calls to retract its coverage of unsubstantiated allegations of bribery schemes - says it offered “constitutionally protected coverage”

Some big names among John Avlon's donors for his run in NY-01: Richard Plepler, Reid Hoffman, Eric Schmidt, James Murdoch and Barry Diller
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Trump does not dismiss the possibility of political violence around the election. “If we don’t win, you know, it depends,” he tells TIME. “It always depends on the fairness of the election.” time.com/6972021/donald…

Jesse Watters to Lachlan Cartwright: 'If Biden wins fair and square of course I’ll tell my viewers he won fair and square.'
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Scoop via Matthew Belloni: Steven Spielberg “has been quietly but actively working with the Joe Biden campaign to help choreograph August’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago. … participating in multiple strategy sessions on how to best tell the president’s story…”

Umm. David Pecker testifies that he had a joint call with Hope Hicks and Sarah Huckabee Sanders — taxpayer funded WH officials, at the time — about whether Karen McDougal’s contract should be extended. 'Both of them said that they thought it was a good idea,' Pecker said.

Important piece on rising anger at Hamas in Gaza. “I pray every day for God to punish the one who brought us to this situation,” says one man. “I pray every day for the death of Sinwar.” ft.com/content/c529a3…

Spotted at Cindy Adams’s 94th birthday party at her Park Avenue apartment: Kathy Hochul, Andrew Cuomo, Eric Adams, Woody and Soon Yi, Al Sharpton, Kellyanne Conway, Bill O’Reilly, Don Lemon, Robert Thomson, Keith Poole, Al Sharpton.

It was like the New York Post come alive.

Mike Lee's criticism of US aid to Ukraine was cut from a Newsmax interview. But it wasn't for time.

Sources told dianafalzone that Chris Ruddy, the head of the network and a vocal supporter of Ukraine, doesn't want that kind of rhetoric on air.
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Trump's Fox News diet in 2024, per Politico: He likes Jesse Watters and Sean Hannity, watches Maria Bartiromo's morning show on Fox Business, and still tunes into Fox & Friends (though he 'frequently complains about host Steve Doocy')
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